THE local community is set to decide on how a declining Wirral shopping centre can be regenerated.

Consultation is under way in bringing in new local planning powers to allow people living in Liscard to say how the town should be revived.

Central Liscard Area Residents Association (CLARA) is working on the neighbourhood development plan.

If more than 50% of people voting in a local referendum support the plan, then the local planning authority must bring it into force.

David Hale, chairman of CLARA, said they want to seek the views of as many people as possible. He said: “This plan is to be resident-led – and as such it has to be their plan. Just come in to the reception of the shop on Wallasey Road and write ideas in the book.”